J anuary 11, 1995 • T he P ortland O bserver
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Lives Lost For The Freedom Struggle
Killed For
Leading Voter
Registration
Drive, Belzoni,
Miss.
Murdered For
Organizing
Black Voters,
Brookhaven,
Miss.
Youth Murdered
For Speaking To
White Woman,
Money, Miss.
Voter
Registration
Worker Killed By
White Legislator,
Liberty, Miss.
Killed By Kian,
Montgomery,
Ala.
Willie Edwards Jr.
/ I
1932-1957
Lamar Smith
1941-1955 Taken From Jail
Rev. George Lee
1892-1955
"The fact that Emmett Till, a
And Lynched,
1903-1955
young black man, could be found
At a time when Mississippi law
floating down the river in Mississippi
and white threats kept most blacks
“Rev. Lee did not ju st tell the
Poplarville, Miss.
just
set in concrete the determination
from
voting.
Lamar
Smith
was
deter
people what they ought to do. He
»-
Herbert Lee
Emmett Louis Till
gave them an example... He fought
for equality and first class citizen
ship and he asked them to follow
him," - Roy Wilkins, NAACPexecu-
tive director.
Slain By
Nightriders
Opposed to
Black School
Improvements,
Mayflower,
Texas
John Eart Reese
(photo unavailable)
1939-1955
mined that his people would have a
say in local governmq/t.
of the people to move forward,”
Fred Shuttlesworth.
‘ 6 Morals cannot be legislated, but
behavior can be regulated. The law
cannot make an employer love me, but
it can keep him from refusing to hire
me because of the color of my skin. ’ ’
- Martin Luther King Jr.
1912-1961
“Jump,” they said. Edwards saw
his only chance of survival in the
dark Alabama River below him and
he jumped.
Witness To
Murder Of Civil
Rights Worker
Assassinated,
Liberty, Miss.
66 T here is little hope for us until
we becom e to u g h -m in d ed enough
to b reak loose from the shackles o f
p reju d ice, h a lf-tru th s, and d o w n
rig h t ig n o ran ce. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Mack Charles
Parker
1936-1959
“If we set back and waited tor
the government to prosecute and
punsh Mack Parker, it would never
happen. So we did it ourselves,” -
Mississippi state official.
Killed Protesting
Construction Of
Segregated
School,
Cleveland,
Ohio
Rev. Bruce Klunder
1 9 3 7 -1 9 6 4
“I pray that by the time the chil
dren grow up, their father’s death
will have been redeemed, and they
will be able to see the effect of what
his dying did for the consciences of at
least a few," - Joanne Klunder
“ F reed o m
is never volun
tarily given by
the oppressor; it
m ust be d e
manded by the
oppressed. ’ ’
- Martin
Luther King Jr.
1919 -1964
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c i u i l r i y h t s f o r a l l p e o p le .
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is a n e q u a l o p p o r t u n i t y e m p l o y e r ,
c o m m it t e d to a f f i r m a t i u e a c t i o n . F o r
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in fo r m a tio n
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PORT OF PORTLAND
L E T H IS D R E A M E V O L V E A N D F L O U R IS H
AS T O D A Y 'S REALITY.
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